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Shanghai SK Group Tower

Shanghai SK Group Tower is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Shanghai SK Group Tower rather than just read about it. In short: The Shanghai SK Group Tower (Chinese: 上海SK大厦) is an office skyscraper in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. Built between 2015 and 2019, the tower stands at 275 m (902 ft) tall with 59 floors and is the current 11th tallest building in Shanghai.

Key takeaways

Shanghai SK Group Tower belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Shanghai SK Group Tower to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Shanghai SK Group Tower from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Shanghai SK Group Tower (Chinese: 上海SK大厦) is an office skyscraper in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. Built between 2015 and 2019, the tower stands at 275 m (902 ft) tall with 59 floors and is the current 11th tallest building in Shanghai.

History In October 2014, the construction of Shanghai SK Tower started. In June 2021, Shanghai SK Tower was completed. The tower disposes 5A grade office quality with a 200-square-meter lobby equipped with LED screens and lighting systems provided by SK Group. The equipment stands in the cloud of approximately 2,500-square-meter freely customizable space designed for smart offices. The building provides ultra-wide viewing angle which allows a 315° panoramic view of the Huangpu River. It is 275 meters high and has 55 floors. It is close to Houtan Station. The building is located in the area surrounded by the Yaolong Road, Yaoyuan Road, Jiming Road and Youcheng Road. The building was invested in by the South Korean technology company SK Group and designed by Shanghai's Architectural Design Institute. The building is also the location of SK Group's regional headquarters.

Architecture The design studio RAD, based in Hong Kong and responsible for the project, chose the Timeless Marble Slimtech collection to adorn corridors across 59 floors. In the Statuario White variant, the 3m x 1m slabs shape surfaces with their modern appeal. The delicate vein designs on the pristine white base tiles foster a luminous, open ambiance in the corridors of the building, linking spaces that are often neglected, yet here are reinvented into passages with distinct personalities. The aesthetic merges with the principles of durability and functionality of ceramic material which is non-absorbent and resistant to stains and wear; it also aligns with eco-sustainable trends—production methods that honor the environment, minimizing the use of water, energy, and raw materials. The building received its LEED Platinum Certification in February 2023.

See also List of tallest buildings in Asia List of tallest buildings in China List of tallest buildings in Shanghai

References

External links

Shanghai SK Group Tower at CTBUH Shanghai SK Group Tower at SkyscraperPage Shanghai SK Group Tower at SKYDB Shanghai SK Group Tower at ScraperBase Shanghai SK Group Tower at Megacostrucciones.Net

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Shanghai SK Group Tower

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Shanghai SK Group Tower claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Shanghai SK Group Tower before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Shanghai SK Group Tower ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Shanghai SK Group Tower

In research: Shanghai SK Group Tower appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Shanghai SK Group Tower in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Shanghai SK Group Tower is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2019 establishments in Shanghai, Buildings and structures completed in 2019, Contemporary Chinese architecture, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Shanghai SK Group Tower outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Shanghai SK Group Tower in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Shanghai SK Group Tower means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Shanghai SK Group Tower out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Shanghai SK Group Tower in simple terms?

Why does Shanghai SK Group Tower matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Shanghai SK Group Tower?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Shanghai SK Group Tower.